Running-gear for sleighs.



Patented Aug. I4, |900.

No. 655,82I.

H. J. GHANIJLER.V RUNNING GEAR Fon SLEIGHS.

(Application f'lecil .Taxi-27, 190D.) (Nm Model.)

Tua Novum Farms co.. Pnofaumo., wAsmup'ron, o. c.

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lirrnn RUNNENG=GEAR FOR SLEIGHS.,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,821, dated August 14, 1900. Application tiled January 27, 1900. Serial No. 3,019. (No model.)

To all wiz/011e it may concern:

Beit known that 1, HORACE J. CHANDLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dummer, in the county of Coos and State of New Hampshire, have invented a certain new and useful Running-Gear for Sleighs, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to sleighs, and has for its object to improve the running-gear thereof,

so that anyinequalities of the ground will beA providedfor without inconvenience to the oc-` cupants of the vehicle.

IVith this object in view my invention consists in the parts and combination of parts, as will be more fully set forth in the following description, recited in the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation oi a sleigh constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 8 is a top plan view of the running-gear. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail sectional view of the means for securing the front portion of the body to the running-gearg and Fig. 5 is an enlarged plan View of a portion of the rave, axle, and braces.

Referring now tothe drawings by referencenuinerals, 10 designates runners of a sleigh, and 11 the raves. The raves and runners are substantially braced by the standards 12 and the cross-rods 13, having their ends bent into the form of angle-irons 14, and the rear portion of the running-gear is braced by a single brace 15. Intermediate their ends the raves are provided each with a suitable opening 16, having iiared ends, so that an oscillating motion of the axle or rod 17 can take place after being secured therein by means of a nut 18 and collar 19. This axle or rod is connected to the two raves in the manner described, and journaled to and extending in a parallel A plane with the axle are the short brace-rods 2O and 2l, and projecting from the runners are the braces 20L and 21a. The short braces are secured tothe raves by suitable bolts 22, and the braces 2On and 21a are secured to the runners in a like manner. A bar 23 connects the forward portion of theV raves and is provided With a core of metal 24:, to which is secured an eyebolt 25, connected to the body of the sleigh by a nut 26.

2 7 is a transverse bar to which the thills are secured.

Resting on the axle 17 and secured thereto are the springs 28 and 29, adapted to take up the unevenness ofthe runners owing to the inequality ot or obstacles on the ground.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that should the left-hand runner strike an obstruclion it will be raised against the spring 28 without alecting the relative positionof the `body of the sleigh, and by reason of the peculiar construction of bracing and connecting the various parts the sleigh will be greatly improved.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to obtain by Letters Patent ot' the United States, is*

1. In a sleigh, the combination with the raves each of which is provided with openings having ilared ends, and the axles are each provided with a shoulder for engaging with the inner side of the rave and with a nut for engaging with the outside, of diagonally-arran ged braces extending from a point on the axle at a distance from the rave, to the raves and to the runners respectively, to the front and to the rear of the axles.

2. In a sleigh, the combination `with runners, standards and raves, of diagonally-arranged braces between the standards, the ends of which are bent into an angle and secured to the runners and to the raves respectively, and diagonally-arranged braces extending from the axles to the raves and t0 the runners respectively. 8. In a sleigh, the combination with a frame, therunners of which are vertically movable relatively to each other, of a bar secured at its ends to the forward part of the raves, an eyebolt secured upon the central portion of the bar against lateral movement, a spring upon each end of one of the axles, and a body secured to the springs and to the eyebolt.

HORACE J. CHANDLER. 

